Friedrich Mellmann

Friedrich Mellmann (born March 11, 1897 in Wandsbek ; † November 2, 1972 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician , member of the Hamburg parliament and managing director of a housing association.

Life

Chocolate factory Neumann-Reichardt-Werk in Wandsbek 1914

Friedrich Mellmann attended elementary school in Wandsbek from 1903 to 1911 . From 1911 to 1915 he learned the blacksmith and locksmith trade . From August 1915 to November 1918 he took part in the First World War. Subsequently worked at Hamburg shipyards. In 1922 he found a job at the chocolate factory, the Neumann-Reichardt-Werken, where he acted as chairman of the works council from 1924 until the plant was closed in 1930 . On March 1, 1931, Mellmann took over the management of the Wandsbeker housing association of free trade unionists .

Mellmann had been unionized since 1911, joined the SPD in 1920 and later became a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . Mellmann was temporarily a member of the KPD , but switched back to the SPD in autumn 1928. He was a member of the Wandsbeck SPD local council and was a city councilor from 1927 to 1933.

After the seizure of power of the NSDAP Frederick Mellmann involved in the illegal work of the SPD. In May 1933 he was briefly taken into protective custody. The second arrest took place from June 20 to July 8, 1933. After that, Mellmann had to report to the police station every day until February 1934. He was then expelled from his home.

At the cooperative he was dismissed by the National Socialists on July 1, 1933 for political reasons. Until the end of April 1937, Mellmann was almost continuously unemployed. He found only short-term jobs, was conscripted and was able to work at a starch factory until mid-1942. In order to avoid the constant house searches and interrogations by the Gestapo , Mellmann took the opportunity to work as a machine foreman in the starch factory in Wronke / Warthegau from September 1, 1942 . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Mellmann was taken into protective custody on August 19, 1944 (as part of the thunderstorm campaign ) and held in the Gestapo camp in Poggenburg near Posen until mid-October 1944 . He was arrested again from mid-January to February 1945. He returned to Hamburg, took over the management of the non-profit housing cooperative again on June 1, 1945 and became a member of the SPD district executive in Wandsbek. He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1946 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1961.

Individual evidence

1. ^ SPD Wandsbek 1863–1950, publisher: SPD Hamburg and Kreis Wandsbek, Hamburg 1988, p. 75
2. ^ Working group of formerly persecuted and imprisoned social democrats: Friedrich Mellmann. In: /www.avs-bund.de. December 23, 2016, accessed January 20, 2020 . 

recognition

In 1980, Mellmannweg was named after him in Wandsbek.